Clinical symptoms of colon cancer

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My cousin has been suffering from colon cancer for some time. He didn't find it in the early stage. It was already in the middle stage, but it was found earlier, so he chose the surgical treatment. In clinical medicine, there are many, so many people misdiagnosed, let me tell you about the symptoms of colon cancer.

Clinical symptoms of colon cancer

Symptom 1: the change of defecation habit or fecal character, most of which are manifested as increased frequency of defecation, irregular or thin stool, bloody stool and mucus. Sometimes constipation or diarrhea alternates with constipation, and the stool becomes thin. In the lower abdominal pain, the degree of different, mostly dull pain or pain. Abdominal mass is often found in patients with right colon cancer. Pay attention to whether there are blood, weight loss, fatigue, edema, hypoproteinemia and other systemic symptoms, tumor necrosis or secondary infection, patients often have fever. The symptoms of colon cancer in the early time without any performance, generally speaking, in the middle may develop into bloody stool or constipation, many people do not pay attention to.

Symptom 2: it is the result of cancer necrosis, ulceration and secondary infection. Because the toxin stimulates the colon to produce the change of defecation habit, the frequency of defecation increases or decreases, sometimes diarrhea and constipation appear alternately, abdominal colic can appear before defecation, and relieve after defecation. If the location of the cancer is low or located in the rectum, there may be rectal irritation symptoms such as anal pain, poor defecation or irritability. Feces often do not form, mixed with mucus, pus, sometimes large blood content, often misdiagnosed as dysentery, enteritis, hemorrhoids and bleeding. Most colon cancer patients feel constipation and bloody stool when they defecate.

Symptom 3: the cancer surface necrosis formation ulcer, may have the continuous small amount oozes the blood, the blood and the excrement mix is not easy to cause the patient to pay attention. However, anemia, emaciation, weakness and weight loss may occur due to chronic blood loss, toxin absorption and malnutrition. The late stage patients had edema, hepatomegaly, ascites, hypoproteinemia and cachexia. Such as cancer through the stomach, bladder fistula formation can also appear corresponding symptoms. This kind of situation is rare in clinical medicine, once it appears, it is more serious.

matters needing attention

Colon cancer is more common in middle-aged and elderly people, 30-69 years old accounted for the vast majority of men than women. Most of the early symptoms are not obvious. The common symptoms of the patients in the middle and late stage are abdominal pain and gastrointestinal irritation, abdominal mass, defecation habits and stool changes, anemia and symptoms caused by chronic toxin absorption, intestinal obstruction, intestinal perforation, etc. Colon cancer patients in the late stage, it is best not to choose surgical treatment, if the early choice of surgical treatment or more optimistic. In the diet, we must eat more light, do not eat stimulating heavy taste food.